Titanic Wreck in 3D in Google Earth 5

February 10, 2009

Last week when Google launched Google Earth 5, the world not only got 3D undersea terrain, and an ocean surface. According to GEB reader Daniel P. some undersea wrecks are sitting in 3D on the sea bottom. For example, you can see the wreck of the Titanic (as many know, it broke into two main parts). You have to turn on the “3D Buildings” layer folder to see the wreck. Also available is the wreck of the Bismark (48°10′N 16°12′W).

It will be interesting to see the ocean floor populated with many wrecks, and maybe even roughly modeled coral reefs. Thanks for the tip Daniel!
By the way, sorry for the low number of posts. I’ve just finished sailing a boat down to Miami and will be attending the boat show there this weekend. I’ll have intermitten connections to the Internet for the next week. But, I hope to do some catchup posts soon. I need to get a satellite Internet connection!

About Frank Taylor

Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was released. He worked in 3D graphics for many years and was very impressed with this exciting product. Frank left in 2009 to circumnavigate the earth by sailboat as part of the Tahina Expedition.

Hi Frank,
One of the big annoyances of the Google Earth Community is misplaced placemarks. Over the years
this phenomanon has put up moderators with an almost inhumane workload and GIS professionals doubt the quality of amateur geo-information precicely because of this.
Checking out your placemark about the Titanic (that leads to the model by ‘Google’ in the SketchUp 3d warehouse) I discovered that (the same?) Google suggests two other locations of the remains of the Titanic, within a distance of respectively 23 and 45 kilometers of your mark. (see image).
The first is marked with the little shipwreck icon of the layer “Ocean>>shipwrecks”, whos
source appears toe be shipwreckcentral.com
(http://shipwreckcentral.com/vessel_detail.php?rid=117)
The other is marked with the icon of the Google Earth’s layer “Ocean>>Explore the ocean”, whos source appears toe be National Geographic
(http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0411/articles/mainarticle.html)
A clue to what the facts really are can be found at the website of (the local organisation): The
Gulf of Maine Research Institute:
“Eventually Bob Ballard released the coordinates of the Titanic’s location. He recorded her coordinates as, stern section sits on ocean floor at 41 43’35” N, 49o56’54” W, boilers at 41 43’32” N, 49 56’49” W, bow at 41 43’57” N, 49 56’49” W.”
(http://www.gma.org/space1/titanic.html)
If GMRI got it right than most amateurs (?) in good old Google Earth Community (Layers>>Galery>>Google Earth Community) appear do a beter job than some professionals . . .
Dieter van Werkum
(image: http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa245/icrandenbroek/GoogleEarth/titanicsallovertheplace.jpg )

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